Texas A&M medical students hold ceremony for donated bodies

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M medical student Christian Martin can easily recall the rush of emotions that came over him when he met his first patient.

"All this woman's passion, her kindness, all the well wishes this woman had, she shared with me," Martin recently said to his 100 or so fellow first-year students enrolled in the Texas A&M Health Science Center's College of Medicine.

The Eagle reports together, the group was honoring the 27 people who donated their bodies to the college so that students could learn not just about anatomy, but about caring and curiosity.